 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The Poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He ask"d for BREAD, and he received a STONE. EELIGION. MILD, sweet, serene, and cheerful was her mood... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...! was yet alive No gen'rous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblems shown ; He asked for bread and he received a stone. S. WESTLEV. MYSELF was once a student,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 346 pages
...wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starv'd to death and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's...— He asked for bread, and he received a stone." 1739. Alderman Micajah Perry, Mayor. He laid the first stone of the Mansion House. 1740. The coach... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 pages
...was still alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown ; He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. composing songs seemed to be his chief talent, which he would... | |
 | John Timbs - East India House (London, England) - 1868 - 896 pages
...alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; Sec him, when starved to death, and turned lo dud. Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He ask'd for bread, and be received a stone." It was soon after this proposed to erect a monument in Covent-garden... | |
 | John Timbs - East India House (London, England) - 1868 - 902 pages
...alive. No generous patron would a dinner give ; Bee him, when starved to death, and turned to dull, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : Be ask'd for bread, and he received a slone." It was soon after this proposed to erect a monument... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, — He ask'd for bread, and he recoiv'da stone. emoluments which it was expected would be showered upon him,... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : Sec him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, — He ask'd for bread, and lie receiv'da stone. Culler, the celebrated author of "Hudibras," was entirely... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1876 - 616 pages
...up of the poet Butler's monumental tablet in the same Abbey is as pathetic as itis pungent : "S«e him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented...emblem shown ; He asked for bread, and he received a itone." When the great itinerant evangelist sipped on blackberries, with the eloquent stone-mason for... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871 - 930 pages
...was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starv'd to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown ; He ask'd for bread, and he receivM a stone." The witty writer has made one mistake in this epitaph. He... | |
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While Butler, needy wretch! was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give: See him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown; He asked for bread, and he received a stone. 
